Science

Sunday, 16 November 2025

Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

Did you know?

Mushrooms

They can be very expensive.

The most valuable mushrooms are the white truffles. For a 1.5 kg specimen was paid 330,000$.

Read all facts

Deimos

The Swift Crater is 1 km in diameter while the Voltaire Crater is 1.9 km in diameter.

They are located close to each other in the northern hemisphere, right near the prime meridian.

Read all facts

Amber

There was a chamber decorated with six tonnes of amber, known as the Amber Room.

Created for Frederick I of Prussia at the beginning of the 18th century, it was given as a token of ...

Find out more

NASA

The most memorable mission of Project Mercury was Freedom 7.

The liftoff took place on May 5th, 1961. It allowed Alan Shepard Jr. to go down in history as the fi ...

Find out more

Graphene

Graphene was successfully isolated and characterized in 2004 by Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from the University of Manchester.

They isolated layers of graphene from graphite using ordinary adhesive tape. They placed a graphite ...

Find out more

Amber

Baltic amber has been found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs.

Scientists claim amber was supposed to represent the tears of Ra—the Egyptian god of the Sun.

Read all facts

Cosmos

The exact size of the universe cannot be estimated.

We can perceive only the visible region of it (one from which light can move faster than the expandi ...

Find out more

Phobos

The surface of Phobos is covered with streaks and ditches approximately 30 meters deep, 200 meters wide, and up to 20 km long.

Read all facts

NASA

NASA has been sued for trespassing on Mars.

Three men from Yemen sued NASA in 1997 claiming that the agency trespassed on their property. They based their claim on the fact that Mars was given to them by their ancestors over 3,000 years ago.

Read all facts

lava

Theoretically, magma can only be studied after it has become lava.

However, in situ magma has been encountered in geothermal drilling on three occasions - twice in Iceland and once in Hawaii.

Read all facts

17 facts about Titan

The largest of Saturn’s satellites

Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with such a dense atmosphere. It is the second largest moon in the Solar System after Ganymede (Jupiter III ...

18 facts about amber

Fossilized tree resin

Amber is one of the most interesting natural products. It looks like a gemstone, but it is a fossilized tree resin from ancient trees dating back mill ...

16 facts about liver

24/7 laboratory

The liver is one of the most essential human organs. It is extensively multitasking—it produces, filtrates, converts, and stores. It is thanks to the ...

29 facts about NASA

For the Benefit of All

The Cold War, although a grim period in world history, brought an intense rivalry in a space race between the U.S., and the Soviet Union. As a result, ...

16 facts about Aurora

Northern light that has delighted people for centuries

Auroras can be different. Sometimes it is bright and dancing, shimmering with different colors, sometimes it appears still. It has always fascinated p ...

19 facts about Brain

Organic supercomputer

The brain is one of the most important and most fascinating and complex organs in the human body. It is an incredibly plastic command center that over ...

16 facts about Phobos

The larger of two moons of Mars

We do not know the exact origin of this satellite. We know, however, that it is dangerously close to its planet and is in for a catastrophe. It is not ...